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Red Planet Farming

Nina Demirjian · 2020-05-25

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 25, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Become the first Agricultural Director of Mars in Red Planet Farming! This casual strategy game tasks players with producing enough food to feed a growing population of settlers on the red planet.

Red Planet Farming is an Indie and Strategy game released in 2020, free-to-play, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (96% of 887 reviews).

1
playing now
96%
positive of 887 reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 42 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity up 31% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (162 reviews).
  • · Top 11% of 49,548 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
15515520202026Week of 2020-05-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 155 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 2 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 3 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
71.6%
earned "Locate Curiosity"
21.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,02415%10

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

MarsIndiePuzzleSci-fiStrategyManagementFarming SimFree to PlaySingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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